Lounge for The Chain Game: San Andreas

[OrionSR]

 

Mission: Drive-By

Called by: gtahomie

Link:

Status: Completed

Completion %: 10.70%

Notes: Done 1 tag. I done the lowrider race. + Muscle

 

Gtahomie: You did the lowrider race?? Which means it's either badlands A or B. Sorry buddy, but as per the rules we are not supposed to do any of the lowrider races until their respective missions arrive. So, the Officers and JAJ might have a take a quick decision here whether to anull your turn or excuse you this time . Next time please be attentive mate

Nice catch cacarla. And well handled everyone.

 

Sorry, gtahomie. I know it's a bit confusing for new players but there are a few rules added to avoid glitching the modified save. We could avoid this problem by requiring custom scripts, but we wanted to keep the custom chain game saves compatible with unmodified games. We tried to keep these to a minimum. I think they are limited to:

 

Street Races: Badlands A, Badlands B, and the Lowrider Race. Complete in story mission first.

Map Missions: Green Sabre, Are You Going to San Fierro, and Yay Ka-Boom Boom. Version 1 or 2 specific.

Wheel O Fortune: Don't play when CJ is in debt from the UFO Curse.

[gtahomie]

ok i already done it again. sorry i didnt pay attention

Edited August 20, 2008 by gtahomie

[rubregg]

 

Nice catch cacarla. And well handled everyone.

I second that.

 

...eerr, while we're at it: why is 'Are You Going To San Fierro' a "Map Mission"? No barriers removed in that one, or are there?

[OrionSR]

 

...eerr, while we're at it: why is 'Are You Going To San Fierro' a "Map Mission"? No barriers removed in that one, or are there?

'Are You Going To San Fierro' uses an IPL flag to turn the crops on and off. Version 1 and version 2 share the same flag for the v1 Crack objects (pre-YKBB factory) and Truth's Crops. If the save has version 2 IPL flags and a v1 player completes 'Are You Going To San Fierro' then the objects for the factory will overlap for v1 players after YKBB. So we need a v2 player to drop the v2 crops and v1 Crack objects. We can let this slide if it comes up again, we did last round with no ill effects. Still, I worry about potential conflicts and try to minimize them whenever possible.

 

For saves with v1 IPL flags we don't have this requirement because there is no way to turn off the v2 Crack flag, so it isn't enabled. Instead they've got a big hole in the planet until YKBB fills in the SCM objects that both versions can see.

 

I think I got that right. Check the link below for reference on the flags used by v1, v2, and PS2.

 

http://www.gtamodding.com/index.php?title=...s#Block_21:_IPL

 

BTW, Katie is now an active GF, but I forgot to check the airport gates. Do you think we can interest any of the new players in the Katie Jumps Rally?

Edited August 21, 2008 by OrionSR

[rubregg]

@ OrionSR

 

Ah, I see. Thanks for the explanation.

 

What's up with your schools this round, avoiding golds on purpose?

 

 

@ all

 

 

BTW, Katie is now an active GF, but I forgot to check the airport gates. Do you think we can interest any of the new players in the Katie Jumps Rally?

Good idea to mention the Chain Game Rallies at this point, there are a few new players around who might not have heard of them. I've seen that after your last turn the airport gates are open, so.....

 

May I blatantly advertise:

 

A while ago OrionSR and I came up with a few rally races. They can be done within the chain game or you can use saves we created specifically for each rally. Some of them are on 4 wanted stars in restricted territory and some aren't. They all need a bit of practice though so here's something fun to do between turns.

 

<Here's the topic>

[OrionSR]

 

What's up with your schools this round, avoiding golds on purpose?

 

Yeah. The plan was to unlock the vehicles one at a time for a change, but then I've been completing other missions that unlock a vehicle so I guess the clues won't too conclusive. I was regretting leaving the bike school at bronze level, the extra bike skill would have been useful.

 

You are right about the rallies requiring practice. I had a hell of a time landing that hospital jump. I eventually lost Katie while repeating the jump and returned later with Michelle to get the job done. Anyway, I spoiled most of the jump bonuses for this round before I got the airport unlocked. Oh yeah, if you want to meet Katie on this save then collect the last oyster to boost her progress from 0% to 45%.

 

I just notice something. In addition to clearing the weather and calming the seas, triggering the boat school lesson will reset the clock to 13:00, I think, I'll check again now that I know what I'm checking for. Anyway, I was using the boat school to advance the clock so I didn't have to wait as long to date down the girlfriends. (Failed dates are faster and less fattening than the early dinner dates. The last oyster provides a 45% boost to the GFs with 0% progress. If we wait a while before collecting the last oyster then we can date down Helena as well. Her restaurant dates are particularly fattening. Keeping the GFs at 0% prevents them from losing progress while were still messing around in restricted territory. This trick doesn't apply to Denise or Millie.)

 

Maybe we should recruit rally racers more directly. Radicell's been working on the local record book scores. Perhaps we can interest him in our custom events. cacarla has been having a lot of success with 4 star challenges and races. cacarla's probably our best hope for a taking on the Katie Jump Rally.

Edited August 22, 2008 by OrionSR

[cacarla]

There's a huge blunder i committed guys. In my previous turn i mentioned that i completed SF to LV and Desert Tricks. I forgot to mention that i also completed Backroad Wanderer in LS . Please dont get confused on the fact that GTASNP checklist points out that BW race is complete but nobody has mentioned it? . It has been completed by me and the changes have been made in the CG thread.. Sorry for the mistake guys. I sincerely regret it.

 

 

cacarla has been having a lot of success with 4 star challenges and races. cacarla's probably our best hope for a taking on the Katie Jump Rally.

 

You've made my day Orion. With such hope on me, ignoring the topic will be stupidity from my side. I promise that i'll look into the Chain Game Rallies topic and see what i can do about it. . Thanks Orion and Rubregg.

Edited August 22, 2008 by cacarla

[rubregg]

 

There's a huge blunder i committed guys.

Don't worry, that's not a huge blunder. No rules got violated so definitely not a biggie.

 

 

Cool, I saw that cacarla has already given Katie Jumps a try.

 

Anyone else want to join in? radicell? radioman? JAJ? jaj's brother? girishb? artoorew? aFinn? hmvartak? anyone else?

 

Anyway, I brushed up the rally topic's frontpage a bit, so why not have a look?

[radicell]

Anyone else want to join in? radicell? radioman? JAJ? jaj's brother? girishb? artoorew? aFinn? hmvartak? anyone else?

lmao, maybe I will give this a try, I actually did once before (I tried the palomino rally with the Bullet) but I had sucked. I have brushed up on my skills so I'll give them more tries, hopefully with better results.

[Girish]

I just tried my hand at the Katie jumps, made 3 jumps before the bike blew up. I thought it was all-proof.

[rubregg]

I just tried my hand at the Katie jumps, made 3 jumps before the bike blew up. I thought it was all-proof.

Well done, that's about as far as I got when I first tried...

 

If I remember right, the bike is nothing-proof so try to avoid road-blocks as best as you can.

[Girish]

If I remember right, the bike is nothing-proof so try to avoid road-blocks as best as you can.

Oh, so it was the roadblocks that doomed me. I was wondering how the bike blew up so quickly when I was successfully avoiding hits by the cops.

[OrionSR]

 

I just tried my hand at the Katie jumps, made 3 jumps before the bike blew up. I thought it was all-proof.

The Green NRG at Santa Maria Beach in the Chain Game save has proofing for Fire and Explosions. I don't think the custom rally save in the topic has any proofing at all. The proofing was added to the chain game version because a green vehicle implies some sort of proofing so I added some that probably won't help much for the challenge. One strategy that might help is to use your bike to trigger the NRG Challenge which increases the health of the NRG for the mission to 300%.

 

 

Oh, so it was the roadblocks that doomed me. I was wondering how the bike blew up so quickly when I was successfully avoiding hits by the cops.

You might consider painting the bike as required. Is Michelle's garage open on the Rally save? IIRC, one of the of the achievements is to finish the challenge with the same colored bike so we are acknowledging the difficulties. This probably won't be an issue once you are working on 12 or more.

 

The other difference between the Rally Save version of the challenges and the custom Chain Game save is the Black Bullet at Palomino Creek has bullet proofing. We were running into trouble with Ballas shooting the car near the end of the event so in the Rally save I took over all the turfs. I didn't have that option in the Chain Game save so the proofing was added. There's nothing I can do about tire damage.

Edited August 22, 2008 by OrionSR

[radioman]

 

BBCode has been disabled. You'll need to copy and paste the link into your address bar. New links don't work right now.

Thanks for clearing that up about the save, Does anyone know why that part has been disabled?

 

Edit, the Quote button doesn't work either right now. As it did not work properly the last 3 times I tried it.

Edited August 23, 2008 by radioman

[rubregg]

The quote button won't work because quotes are also bbcode. ...quite annoying that bbcode is off - does anyone have an idea why??

[Girish]

The quote button won't work because quotes are also bbcode. ...quite annoying that bbcode is off - does anyone have an idea why??

http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=368779

[Girish]

Sorry for the double post, but the quote button works fine unless you edit your post and then it turns the quote code into html code and then even if you manually add quotes, they won't work.

[radioman]

So, just a note to all Chain Game players(mostly the new players, as most of the older Chain Game "veterens", like myself, already know this), that when you download the previous link, you have to do it manually by copying and pasting the link in your browser's address bar as the BBcodes have been disabled. Hope this helps clear up confusions and helps keep the progress of the game running smoothly.

[rubregg]

The quote button won't work because quotes are also bbcode. ...quite annoying that bbcode is off - does anyone have an idea why??

http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=368779

thanks for the info, girishb

 

oh...eerr..... so quotes do work? let's try....

[rubregg]

so the quoted link is now clickable all of a sudden? lmao

 

sorry for the double post, didn't dare edit the last one, might have lost the quote...

 

 

[JAJ]

 

I guess we need JAJ to post the official rule on this one. I can't find notes on the change in the current rules so either the change was dropped or didn't get included in the rules template. We had a few rounds where BMX and NRG were delaying End of the Line, I think the changed rule makes these easier to complete when I'm in the area.

 

However, it would probably be best to avoid editing the rules post. With BBcode disabled it will look quite the mess if the message is altered.

 

OrionSR is correct about all of this stuff. The status for BMX & NRG changed in Round 30 & I didn't update the template & I believe that those odd jobs should have the 'exempt' status (I just now did update the template... ). So OrionSR's turn is a good turn as far as I'm concerned.

 

Edit: Sorry about the confusion this caused.

Now that it's safe I edited the first post in the chain game topic.

Edited August 24, 2008 by JAJ

[rubregg]

OrionSR is correct about all of this stuff. The status for BMX & NRG changed in Round 30 & I didn't update the template & I believe that those odd jobs should have the 'exempt' status (I just now did update the template... ). So OrionSR's turn is a good turn as far as I'm concerned.

Well that explains it, I returned after round 30, that's why I missed that change of the mission status for NRG and BMX. Sorry for the confusion.

[cacarla]

A good News guys!! Few of the BBcodes are back which makes life a little better now..

 

 

Yeah they're back!!

 

^^that was a quote made to test a few things .Thankgod the quotes are working ..

Edited August 24, 2008 by cacarla

[Girish]

so the quoted link is now clickable all of a sudden? lmao

Yeah, I was wondering the same too. It's strange considering that although BBCodes have been enabled, the and tags are still disabled.

 

And that topic I linked you to got deleted. People have started spamming the Network Support forum too.

 

Anyways, atleast now I should be able to update the checklist.

[cacarla]

 

The Banner for the Chain game has Gone!! . It was fine yesterday.. Damn, Everthing is bad around here .

[Girish]

The Banner for the Chain game has Gone!! . It was fine yesterday.. Damn, Everthing is bad around here .

That's because JAJ edited the first post. If you have images in any of your posts elsewhere, it'd be best not to edit them until the and tags are enabled again.

[rubregg]

 

It's strange considering that although BBCodes have been enabled, the and tags are still disabled.

Not so strange; from what I read in that topic you linked to I got the impression that people had pictures with dodgy links in their signatures.

 

And that topic I linked you to got deleted. People have started spamming the Network Support forum too.

omg. well, there *were* some dubious postings in that topic...

 

Anyway, maybe it's best to stay away from editing fancy postings with lots of bbcode for a little longer. I think I won't touch mine for the moment...

[Ryan]

Hey everybody. I'm finally back. Only after not being here for about 7 weeks.

 

I returned home today only to find that my video card I use for gaming isn't working so as soon as I get it fixed or it decides to work I'll join back in.

[cacarla]

 

Hey everybody. I'm finally back. Only after not being here for about 7 weeks.

 

I returned home today only to find that my video card I use for gaming isn't working so as soon as I get it fixed or it decides to work I'll join back in.

Hey!! Great to see you back Ryan. How are you by the way? Hope you join back soon. Congrats on your CG lounge thread overshooting 1000 posts mate

[radicell]

 

Since I have V.2, I think i'll go ahead and do The Green Sabre, So i'll take a turn now.

 

Mission-The Green Sabre

Called by- Radioman

Stats- 42.78%

Link- GTA SnP (http://gtasnp.com/12861)

Notes- Bought All Countryside Safehouses

        - Collected Ammo/Armor

        - Did 2 Unique Stunt Jumps

        - Got Helen as a girlfriend, she can be found at San Luis Obispo.

        - Saved at the Santa Cruz trailer park

 

 

@Girishb, on the stat sheet, it says that jajbrother did the taxi fares, but I was the one who did them. Just thought i'd point that out.

 

Also, sorry about the long turn.

 

What the hell is a San Luis Obispo, and where is Santa Cruz?